Mrs. Bradley's Class Kindergarten: Where Learning Is An Adventure 

**Reminder**

We are looking forward to our class Valentine’s Day Party this Wednesday, February 14th from 11:00-12:00. Please send in Valentine cards for the students in our class today or tomorrow and your child will pass those out to each of our Valentine bags. Thank you so much for all of the decorations you have sent in for our bags. Our class had so much fun making their Valentine bags and they all turned out beautiful!

Also, this week we are working on subtraction using real objects to tell subtraction stories. We are going to read the book, Peter Rabbit and then use carrots to make a subtraction story. If you are able to send in a bag of carrots, it would be very much appreciated.

Weekly Plans and Activities for February 12-16

Morning Activities and Journal Writing (practice using sight words: was, because)

• M – February word bank, journal writing
• T –  number writing, using yarn to create textured numbers
• W – finding the word “was” in poem, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• Th – Winter Fluency Find It Game (middle sounds)
• F – Yes/No Graphing (Does your first name have more letters than your last name?),  Champs Assembly

Morning Message:

• M –digraphs (sh, th), identify middle sounds, long a sound, writing numbers (same, 2 more, 2 less)
• T – stretch out sound to write words with long o,i , rhyming words, count to 70, fill in the ten frames
• W –digraphs (sh, th, ch), using number bonds to write a number sentence, reading sight word sentences with expression and counting words in a sentence
• Th –fill in the missing words to complete the sentence, finish the number bonds, matching pictures to words
• F – Champs Assembly

Writing

• Continue Writing: If I Had $100, 2nd We Deliver Class Letter, 2nd Beginning, Middle, End Story
• Valentine Words and Inspiration Pages free writing
• Review Punctuation and Writing Checklist, review Writing A Letter anchor chart, introduce Story Retelling Map cards
• Students will continue using their writing rubrics
• Students will write a letter to someone in the school
• How To Make A Heart – Interactive Writing
• Valentine Acrostic Poem – Interactive Writing
• Parts of a Story song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSyrFfz55xo
• Writing is Cool! Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDkKgMXdyk
• The Sentence Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wrv_ZviMEc
• Parts of a letter songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKy4hV6WnA

Reading:

• Books – The Littles Valentine, NonFiction Book – The Giant Squid, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Five Little Ducks, Five Little Monkeys
• Poem – Valentine Friendship, Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Bear
• Focus – NonFiction Vs. Fiction, features of nonfiction, sight words, chunks, Capitalization, Punctuation, Word Families
• Questions – KWL chart, Retell Beginning, Middle, End…, In the Beginning…, Next…, At the end…, What does this remind you of (connections)
• Phonics Lessons  and Activities- cvc words/boxes, blending, deleting final phonemes

Math: (model the action of separating to represent subtraction)

• M –Race to 10 and 20 using addition and subtraction with cubes
• T – Cupcake Subtraction word problem
• W – Valentine Party!!
  Th – MIMIO: Five Little Ducks and Number Strings
• F – Sing or Read Five Little Ducks and act out subtraction problems with rubber ducks, students will use cubes to tell a subtraction story and then write a number sentence

Science/Social Studies

• M – How Animals Prepare for Winter
• T – Chart Animals that Hibernate in Winter
• W – Valentine’s Day Party!!
• Th-F – Presidents Day, Brainpopjr. – George Wahsington and Abraham Lincoln

Hope you all have a great week!